Archive for the ‘Geeta Dutt songs’ Category
Dheere dheere behti naiyya
Posted on: April 30, 2010
I have posted a song from “Veer Babhruwaahan” (1950) in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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Chandaa bataa jaa re
Posted on: April 27, 2010
“Chaand” songs are one of the most popular genre of songs in Bollywood movies. There are countless songs on this topic, and many of them have gone on to become immortal.
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Tora manwaa kyun ghabraaye re
Posted on: April 15, 2010
Geeta Dutt had originally sung this bhajan (“Rakh na ramakda”) in Gujrati movie “Mangal Phera” (1949) for music director Avinash Vyas and that has gone on to become an evergreen bhajan in Gujarati. The same Bhajan was used in “Saadhana” (1958). This time, N Datta was the music director and Sahir Ludhianvi wrote the bhajan in Hindi. Geeta Dutt, who sang it originally in Gujarati, sang it it in the Hindi version too.
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Barkhaa ki raat mein he ho haa
Posted on: April 14, 2010
There are some songs about which I come to know by reading about them. But when I look for them, these songs are extremely elusive, as they are not available anywhere.
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“Jawaani Ki Hawaa” (1959) is quite an obscure movie. It was an All India pictures production and it was directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Pradeep Kumar, Vaijayantimala, Raj Mehra, Purnima, Badri Prasad,Shammi, Anil Kumar, Anwar, Amar, Helen, Johnny Walker etc in it.
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Ab kaun sunegaa haay re
Posted on: March 3, 2010
Here is a rare song from an obscure movie called “Darogaji” (1949). This song is from an entirely different era over six decades ago. Those were the days when Geeta Dutt was still Geeta Roy, and Nargis had yet to become a very big name actress.
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When we look back at the past, we tend to wear rosy glasses and look back into the past only selectively. The past is not always all that glorious, as we tend to believe.
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I have posted a wonderful song from “Makkhichoos” (1956) in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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Aao aao kahaani suno
Posted on: February 17, 2010
Not much is known about the movie “Mr Sampat” (1952) except that this movie was produced in South India and it was directed by S S Vasan. Motilal and Pardmini played lead roles in this movie.
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Naache ghodaa naache ghodaa
Posted on: February 12, 2010
Till recently, scoring centuries of songs took me just a fortnight. But now I have slowed down considerably. My previous century (song number 2101 to 2200) took me one month. Even that was much faster than my present century. Yes, this song is song number 2300 for this song, and it has taken me a tortoise like two months and a half to reach from 2201 to 2300 !
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